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sists of rough (rolled) plate glass 14 inch 
thick, and the front and rear of the 
best double thick French or English 
glass. It is not necessary, however, 
that the ends should be of one solid 
piece of cast iron; the tank may be 
made of angle iron after the same prin- 
ciple described in the article referred 
to above. All that would be necessary 
in such a case would be to give the 
outside of the end glass two or more 
coats of paint. 
The two brackets, seen on the right 
and left of the tank, are to imitate the 
banks or border of a brook. ‘To form 
such a bank, a strong galvanized wire 
(No. 12) is bent into shape of a capital 
letter U; each end is then bent to form 
a little hook, and after this the whole 
is bent in the middle to form a right- 
angled bracket. When this support 
has been shaped to fit snugly (the 
hooks nicely over the edges of the ends 
and the wires running alongside the 
corners of the tank), a piece of ordinary 







The American Angler 
glass about four inches wide and as 
long as the tank is wide, is placed upon 
it, and the brackets are ready to receive 
the plants intended for the decoration 
of the embankment. 
Small specimens of the following are ° 
the most suitable and most easily ob- 
tained: Umbrella grass (Cyperus alter- 
nifolius), No. 1; small growing Iris; 
dwarf Bamboo, No. 4; young specimens 
of Sword fern (Nephrolepis exaltata), 
Wo. 3; dwarf Callas (Little Gem)r 
Farfugium grande; Arrowhead (Sagit- 
taria -sinensis),’ (No. »5;° creeping His: 
(Ficusrepens), No. 2, and others. But 
these artificial banks may as well be 
filled with native plants found in the 
woods or alongside of any creek or lake. 
For the purpose of putting these 
plants in position, the glass plates upon 
which they are to rest are taken from 
the brackets and the plants are tied 
with strong string or fine copper wire 
on top of them, using plenty of green 
moss to imbed them in, after which 
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